Stokesay Castle is a fortified manor house in Stokesay, Shropshire, England.

This morning Mark and I decided to travel not to far from home, in fact by our standards of late a short journey to Shropshire to photograph Stokesay Castle in Ludlow, unfortunately the weather once again really didn't do the location justice, in fact I suspect it was worse than that, although the building was interesting, it was lined with scaffolding, and the nearby pool / pond was half full and a little stinky! To help matters the rising sun came up behind hill range in the background causing long shadows to be cast, when this was combined with a largely clear and cloudless sky it produced a rather underwhelming subject to shoot. However all was not lost, it was great to be outdoors again, at the start of a new day whilst many were still fast asleep.

Image Title: Stokesey Castle Estate View

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Stokesay Castle is a fortified manor house in Stokesay, Shropshire, England. It was built in the late 13th century by Laurence of Ludlow.
Ludlow,
who at the time was one of the richest men in England. It remains a
treasure by-passed by time, one of the best places to visit in England
to experience what medieval life was like.

Stokesay is one of the first fortified manor houses in England:
almost all the surviving house was completed by 1291. Its walls and moat
(the former demolished in the 1640s) outside, and strongrooms within,
provided a degree of security, though in reality its military appearance
was superficial: it could never have withstood a serious siege, as the
expansive windows on both sides of the hall make clear. Meanwhile the
symmetry of Stokesay’s layout – with a tower at each end of the
residential complex and a regular sequence of gables and windows in the
hall between them – bears witness to the taste, wealth and importance of
its owner.